I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture….

Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream..

Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince. "So that I may forget," replied the tippler. "Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was alr….

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the s….

It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may..

On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a….

The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness of night or tem….

Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need fo….

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up..

There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations..

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason..

What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to ….

She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind….

Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defea….

The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others..

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water..

True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man..

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them..

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use..

Night, when words fade and things come alive..

For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll ….